Beginner Board

This week’s Nice Rack Canada pedalboard creation is going to a local recreational guitarist, who is enjoying his first ever pedalboard system.

Our client came to us with a wealth of acoustic guitar playing history but has only recently dived into the colourful world of electric guitar.

Without a concise sonic idea that we were to conform to, we worked with the client through his personal listening choices and preferences for recorded guitar sounds. Through this consultation process we were able to select the effects needed, procure them, design the signal flow and build up the complete system.

To make the maximum functionality from the least amount of space we crafted the following signal flow.

The Boss FV30 Volume pedal has been modified to a 10kΩ Linear Expression Pedal. As the user can only move 1 foot at a time while playing we devised of using the Expression pedal to control a number of different effect parameters in the H9’s. This feature saved the space & weight that would have otherwise been taken up by an analog Volume Pedal & Wah.

On H9 presets where no real time control of effect parameters, we have assigned on a per preset basis, the Input or Output volume to Expression Pedal control. Virtually adding a volume pedal to the array without increasing the footprint or weight.